The Trump Administration Is Cancelling LGBT+ People On Governmental Websites
LGBT+ related content has changed in the past two years, under the Trump administration and it doesn’t look good. LGBT+ data and resources pages have disappeared as well as anti-discrimination information, ‘Fast Company’ reports.
“Across 142 government websites with LGBTQ content, 57% had significant alterations to LGBTQ-related terms, while the rest maintained their Obama-era wording,” the article mentions.
Specific examples are stated below:
Firstly it mentions that “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention replaced “LGBTQ” with “LGB” on pages about queer youth, while also deleting transgender statistics from the 2015 and 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys. Insufficient data about LGBTQ people have long hampered good policymaking.”
Another example is that of The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. They “removed a number of explanations and resources about discrimination against LGBT people and HIV-positive people, meaning that people facing housing discrimination cannot access information about their rights and current laws on those pages.”
Lastly, The Department of Health and Human Services has “largely abandoned identity language, with a 40% dip in use of the term “transgender” and a 25% dip in “gender,” in favor of religious-freedom terminology, which can be problematic in allowing, for example, healthcare providers to refuse transgender patients or procedures.”
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